Explore Our Courses

Live, small-group courses taught by scholars, artists, and practitioners. Small groups of 10-25 learners. Real dialogue. Deep transformation.

Together, we'll unpack how hyperindividualism shapes social change work; reroot into our need for relational reciprocity and interdependence; and explore how we can weave wider webs of solidarity and support in our lives and leadership

Lena Papadopoulos · Award-winning educator and leadership coach working at the intersection of personal and collective liberation

Live Online20 students max2 sessions

A Life That Can Hold the Work: Build Your Personal Wellbeing Blueprint

Build a stronger foundation for meaningful work through practical lessons in nutrition, movement and emotional wellbeing designed to help changemakers sustain their energy, health and impact over time.

Khawar Malik · Helping changemakers sustain their work 🌱

Live Online8 students max4 sessions

Starts August 10, 2026

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Tending to the Roots of Conflict in a Divided World

Deepen your capacity to unearth and tend to the unconscious beliefs, protective patterns, and survival strategies at the root of conflict, division, dehumanization, and polarization.

Lena Papadopoulos · Award-winning educator and leadership coach working at the intersection of personal and collective liberation

Live Online15 students max8 sessions

Enrollment opens soon

Summer 2026

Weekly Course

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The Values Lab: Living What You Stand For

A 4-week relational lab for people questioning what matters to them, exploring the stories behind their values, and experimenting with how to live in closer alignment with what they stand for.

Angela Montijo, LCSW · Relational Facilitator & Educator

Live Online15 students max4 sessions

Starts July 15, 2026

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Building Our Capacity for Resistance

How do we continue to resist oppressive systems in adverse climates, while taking care of ourselves? This course works through what holds us back in our advocacy work and how to overcome those limitations sustainably.

Sarah Seraj, PhD & Saamiya Seraj, PhD

Live Online25 students max4 sessions

Enrollment opens soon

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Relational Leadership as Design

Leaders learn to design systems needed to thrive with the Relational Leadership Design Framework, a paradigm that reframes leadership from a positional function into a collective capacity grounded in consciousness, context, and presence.

Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, PhD · Transforming Data and Lived Experiences into Strategic Clarity and Direction

Live Online25 students max4 sessions

Enrollment opens soon

Summer 2026

Intensive Course

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Development by Design (DxD): Power, Perception, and Human Systems

Learn to see and reshape the hidden forces shaping human behavior—within yourself, your relationships, and your environment—through a Development by Design (DxD) approach grounded in neuroscience, systems thinking, and critical theory.

Tricia Douglas · Designing human development across systems, relationships, and culture

Live Online25 students max2 sessions

Starts August 23, 2026

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Being Human: The Path for Change

Systems strip humanity away. We are disconnected. Our ability to flourish diminishes. How can we restore our humanity? How can we become more empathetic, loving, and hopeful to cultivate the conditions for change?

Sheila Pontis, PhD · Professor & Researcher in Imagination, Wellbeing and Design

Live Online12 students max4 sessions

Enrollment opens soon

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The World on our Plates: Culture, Politics, and Food Systems

From historical migration, imperialism, gender, and capitalism: how is the world around us reflected in the food on our plates, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

Josefina Venegas Meza, PhD & Pavan Mano, PhD

Live Online25 students max8 sessions

Enrollment opens soon

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Find Your Voice

Our stories have the power to transform systems that were never designed for us. In this class, we will empower you to unpack your racial trauma, explore your identity, and find your voice.

Sarah Seraj, PhD & Saamiya Seraj, PhD

Live Online25 students max8 sessions

Enrollment opens soon

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Beyond Sustainability: Connection, Wisdom, and Regenerative Leadership

This course invites you to explore sustainability from a place of empowerment, connection, and inspiration rather than fear and urgency. Drawing on environmental psychology, storytelling, and ancestral wisdom, it focuses on embodying practices that create meaningful impact. By the end, you’ll feel equipped to engage with environmental work authentically, reconnect with the land and community, and lead initiatives grounded in purpose and care.

Najla Abdellatif Vallander · Environmental Advocate

Live Online25 students max4 sessions

Enrollment opens soon

Summer 2026

Weekly Course

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Living with Imagination and Optimism

A transformative experience to reclaim your imaginative powers: Journey inwards by using a blend of mindfulness-based practices and interdisciplinary techniques to dismantle internal barriers, unlock your unbound potential, and integrate imagination into your life and work.

Sheila Pontis, PhD · Professor & Researcher in Imagination, Wellbeing and Design

Live Online12 students max4 sessions

Starts July 10, 2026

Fall 2026

Wellbeing

Embodying Liberation

This course offers a transformative journey into embodied resistance and collective healing. Developed under siege and exile, Ashira Active Meditation draws from Sufi whirling, somatic release, and indigenous Palestinian practices to support healing from trauma on both personal and collective levels. Participants will: - Explore how continuous trauma shapes the nervous system - Learn how the body can be a site of both memory and liberation - Engage in movement practices, grief rituals, and storytelling - Reclaim joy as a form of resistance Guiding Questions: - How do we grieve while building resilience? - How can our bodies become vessels for transgenerational healing? - What does it mean to be radically alive in times of collapse? This course centers voices from SWANA and global majority communities, offering tools that are culturally rooted, somatically empowering, and spiritually sustaining.

Ashira Darwish · Healer

Live Online25 students max8 sessions

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Modern Food: How we are what we eat

What are the costs & conveniences of modern food? From who makes it to what goes in it, we want to re-establish our connection with food and where it comes from.

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Josefina Venegas Meza, PhD & Pavan Mano, PhD

Live Online25 students max2 sessions